Getting To 'First'

Audiences fell for Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore’s Groundhog Day-esque amnesiac romantic comedy, 50 First Dates, whose four-day, $45.1 million finish just barely edged past Daredevil’s $45 million record for the best Presidents’ Day weekend opening ever. As for last week’s champs, Miracle virtually achieved just that, holding on to all but a scant 12 percent of its audience at No. 2, while Barbershop 2 got clipped, falling to No. 3. Omar Sharif’s Monsieur Ibrahim (No. 52) fared well for a foreign indie, bowing with a $9,385 average. And having earned $357.4 million, The Return of the King has now passed Jurassic Park as the sixth-highest domestic grosser of all time.

NUMBER WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND OF PER-SITE IN TO TOP 20 GROSS* SITES+ AVERAGE RELEASE DATE